Stove-pipe shelf



SAMUEL AYRES, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

STOVE-PIPE SHELF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,452, dated November 16, 1880. Application led May 21, 1880. (N model.)

To all whom @t may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL AYRES, of Worcester, Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Stove-Pipe Shelf and Towel- Rack Combined, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of shelves which are adapted to grasp the stove-pipe, and are held in place by that means. Its nature is fully shown bythe following description and accompanying drawings of acombined stovepipe shelf and towel-rack embodying' my iuvention.

In said drawings Figure l is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 shows a plan, the same letters indicating the same parts in both.

To construct my invention I make astrong frame of pretty stiff wire, consisting of twoV partial rings, B and E,connected bysliort stays of the saine. To the ends of this frame are attached the two grasping-loops D D, so constructed as to swing on the ends of the frame to adinit of heilig' put onto the pipe, and with their adjacent ends formed into eyes to receive the bolt C, by which the whole is held in place. To the frame B E, I connect the shelf, formed by the horizontal bars a a a a making the platform, their ends being turned one around the piece E and the other around A, or otherwise securely fastened, the outer edge of the platform being supported by the braces b b b nrinly secured to A and B. The piece A is extended back beyond the shelf, as at A A', and, with the bars F F, forms the towel-rack,

ing it when on, the peculiar construction of the supporting-frame B E giving the greatest strength for the weight of material, and obviating the danger of a collapse of the pipe when old-or, in other words, the bending or breaking it by one or more of the braces b b when a heavy article is placed on the shell', as is liable to occur with the light metal bands which have heretofore been used for that purpose. The rack extending back allows the articles on it to hang clear of the stove.

I am aware that towel-racks and stove-pipe shelves adapted to be connected to the stovepipe by means of circular loops and screwbolts are not new, and I do not therefore desire to claim such a construction broadly 5 but What I do claim as new and useful is- As an improved article of manufacture, the herein-described stove-pipe shelf and towelrack combined, consisting of the frames B E, having loops D D and screw-bolt C, and provided with the braces b, platform A a, and rack A F, the whole being formed ot' wire rods, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

SAML. AYRES.

Witnesses:

KELO WANN, J. G. ARNOLD. 

